Device for pressing trousers.



No. 762,041. PATENTED JUNE 7, 1904. S. M. FRIEDE. DEVICE FOR PRESSING TROUSERS. APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 14. 1903. N0 MODEL.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED JUNE 7. 1904.

s. M. FRIBDE.

DEVICE FOR PRESSING TROUSERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14. 1903.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 no MODEL.

If/IIIIIIIIII/(III!!! it N UNITED STATES PatentedJune '7, 1904.

SAMUEL M; FRIEDE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR PRESSING TROUSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,041, dated June 7, 1904.

Application filed March 14, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. FRIEDE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Pressing Trousers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for pressing clothing, and particularly pantaloons or trousers, which it is desired shall be creased as well as pressed.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved construction in devices of this character; and it consists in the matters hereinafter set forth,and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a trousers-pressing device constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 1 is a view of one of the dampening-cloths detached. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the base-board. Figs. 6 and 7 are fragmentary details in section of the ends of the pressing-boards. Fig. 8 is a transverse section taken on line 8 8 of Fig. 3, showing the tendency of the pressure to warp the boards and also showing a construction of the eccentrics slightly modified from that previously illustrated.

The device thus illustrated comprises in its construction a lower orbase board 1 and an upper or top board 2. These boards are separable to permit the trousers or pantaloons T to be placed between them and are provided with clamping devices by which they may be then forced tightly together to press and crease the inserted garment. As herein shown, such clamping devices are made in the form of two pairs of eccentrics 3, each of which is rigidly mounted on a transverse shaft 4. These shafts extend clear across the top board 2 and are journaled at their ends in brackets 5, that project upwardly from the base-board 1, these brackets being herein shown as securely fastened to the sides of said base-boards by screws 6. The eccentrics 3 are provided with handles 7, by which they may be turned down against the top board 2, as shown in Figs. 1

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I and 3, so as to force said top board down against the base-board with a heavy pressure, and this action is increased by wedge-shaped blocks or bearings 8, provided on the top boards at the point where the latter is engaged by the eccentrics. lVhen thrown up, as shown in Fig. 3, the eccentrics will be raised clear of the top board, and the latter can then be slipped endwise beneath them until it is clear of the base-board and leaves the latter entirely exposed for the insertion or removal of the garment to be pressed. Stop-pins or lugs 9 project laterally from the eccentrics.3 and engage the tops of the brackets 5 to properly limit the movement of the eccentrics in either direction.

The necessary dampening of the garment during the pressingoperation is accomplished by a pair of cloths 10, applied to the pressingsurfaces of the base and top boards 1 and 2. Desirably these cloths are simply strips of a suitable fabric removably secured at their ends to the boards, as by tabs 11, which are apertured to button over studs or screws 12 on the ends of the boards. To provide for stretching and shrinkage and to keep the cloths taut under all circumstances, one of these sets of tabs 11 is desirably made of rubber, elastic, or the like. The other set of tabs may also be of rubber or may be of leather or strong fabric, such as canvas.

In the operation of the device thus described the cloths 10 will first be sufliciently dampened, preferably by removing them from the boards, dipping them in water, wringing out the surplus moisture, and stretching them back upon the boards. The trousers to be pressed will then be laid carefully upon the lower board, with the front edges of the legs together and in a perfectly straight line, after the manner indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The upper board can now be slipped in face downward beneath the eccentrics, and the latter will be thrown over to force the top board down until the trousers are tightly pressed between it and the base-board. The

intense pressure will cause the moisture from the cloths to penetrate the entire fabric of the garment, and by allowing it to dry under this pressure all the wrinkles and the bagginess at knees and elsewhere will be removed even more effectually than though the garment had been subjected to the pressure of a hot iron.

' pressing garments over the ordinary method,

in which the hot iron is used, consists in the fact that the drying of the garment under contact with the dampening-cloths seems to not only take out the wrinkles and leave the garment smooth, but to clean its fabric in a marked degree, the dirt seeming to stick to the dampening-cloths when the garment is removed. It also appears that the action of the dampening -cloths when removed from contact with the garment is to lift the nap of the goods and give the fabric a bright and new appearance much superior to that which can be obtained in any other way.

It will be noted that in the improved construction illustrated the eccentrics 3 are located close to the edges of the boards just inside of the brackets 55, and as a result of this arrangement the tendency of their action is to draw the boards tightly together at their edges and permit them to warp or spring apart in between after the manner shown in an exaggerated way in Fig. 8. This tendency is ad vantageous in that it tends to concentrate the pressure upon the edges of the trousers where it is desired that they shall be creased and leaves the seams S of the trousers, which naturally extend up the middle of the boards, comparatively free from pressure. Furthermore, by making the eccentrics adjustable lengthwise upon the shafts t, as by means of setscrcws 13 passing through hubs 14 on the eccentrics after the manner shown in said Fig. 8, the character of the pressure and the amount of warping given or permitted in the boards may be varied as desired by moving the occentrics inwardly on the shaft to whatever extent may be found necessary.

I claim as my invention- 1. A garment-pressing device comprising a pair of pressing boards, dampening sheets stretched upon the pressing-surface of each board, and. clamping devices for forcing the boards tightly together, substantially as described.

2. A garment-pressing device comprising a pair of pressing boards, dampening sheets stretched removably upon the pressing-sur faces of the boards, and clamping devices for forcing the boards tightly together, substantially as described.

3. A garment-pressing device comprising a pair of pressing boards, dampening sheets stretched removably and elastically upon the pressing-surfaces of the boards, so as to be held taut for all conditions, and clamping devices for forcing the boards tightly together, substantially as described.

t. A garment-pressing device comprising a pair of pressing boards, dampening sheets stretched upon the pressing-surfaces of the boards, and removably secured thereto at both ends, said securing devices at one end being elastic straps, substantially as described.

5. A garment-pressing device comprising a base-board, upstanding brackets on said baseboard, a transverse shaft extending between the brackets, a top board inserted between the brackets and beneath the shaft, and eccentrics mounted on said shaft and adjustable longitudinally thereof for forcing the boards toward each other, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix my signature, in presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 4th day of March, A. D. 1903.

SAMUEL M. FRIEDE.

Witnesses HENRY W. CARTER, K. A. Gos'rELLo. 

